In Part B, the point of measuring not a single period but rather the time for many swings is

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nothing, it just makes the experiment fill the class time.

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to allow for a measurement since a single period completes before we can start and then stop the timer

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to improve the precision in the estimate of the period by reducing the fractional uncertainty by spreading the approximately fixed timing uncertainty over multiple periods.

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to improve the precision in the estimate of the period through averaging out any measurements that over and under estimate the period

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